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Your Armpits Are Trying to Tell You Something
NEWS | 20 November 2024
I swiped it across my armpits before bed, and to my surprise, they were dry all the next day. Yet many of us swipe our armpits in the morning before we head out for the day. Antiperspirant isn’t a film on the surface of the armpit that stops moisture from leaking through, like a tarp over wet grass. Antiperspirant applied in the morning isn’t ideal, because people sweat more during waking hours, when they’re active. Still, it works best if applied to dry armpits that, ideally, stay dry enough for the plugs to form.

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I Used to Have Friends. Then They Had Kids.
NEWS | 20 November 2024
I organize things with my smallish group of close friends, but as more of them have kids, those get-togethers are so frenetic and kid-focused that we rarely have real conversations anymore. I feel like I know them, and they know me, much less than we used to—and that gap breaks my heart. It’s so tiring: I can’t stop wanting to have friends, and yet, honestly, friendship has mostly been a disappointing pain for the past couple of years. I just feel like I’m getting back on the terrible merry-go-round of hope and disappointment related to friendship. But try to forgive your friends with kids.

World:
The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
NEWS | 20 November 2024
For anyone who teaches at a business school, the blog post was bad news. One of her colleagues—­­a star professor at Harvard Business School named Francesca Gino—­had just been accused of academic fraud. Harvard Business School had quietly placed Gino on administrative leave just before the blog post appeared. The other main contributor was Alison Wood Brooks, a young professor and colleague of Gino’s at Harvard Business School. Dan Ariely told Business Insider in February 2024 : “I’ve spent a big part of the last two years trying to find out what happened.

Current Events:
Special Preview: January 2025 Issue
NEWS | 20 November 2024
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Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccines
NEWS | 20 November 2024
Today, diphtheria has been so thoroughly forgotten that someone like me, born some 60 years after the invention of a diphtheria vaccine, might have no inkling of the fear it once inspired. But the success of vaccines has also allowed for a modern amnesia about the level of past human suffering. “People used to say, ‘Don’t get the infant ward during diarrhea season,’” Orenstein told me. But in the 2000s, the introduction of rotavirus vaccines for babies six months and younger sharply curtailed hospitalizations. To Orenstein, it is important that the current rotavirus vaccine has proved effective but also safe.

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SPONSORED | 20 November 2024
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The ‘Democracy’ Gap
NEWS | 20 November 2024
According to a survey by the Associated Press, a full one-third of Trump voters said that democracy was their top issue. Almost all Americans say they support democracy. Yoni Appelbaum: Americans aren’t practicing democracy anymoreAmericans perceive democracy through an almost completely partisan lens. We just have to sacrifice a little democracy for the sake of democracy, the thinking goes. You might think that, in a democracy, support for democracy itself would be nonnegotiable—that voters would reject any candidate or leader who didn’t clear that bar, because they would recognize that weakening democracy threatens their way of life.

Breaking:
Washington Is Shocked
NEWS | 20 November 2024
Surprise was perhaps merited in late 2016 and early 2017, when Trump was still an unknown quantity. On Capitol Hill, Republican senators say they are shocked by many of Trump’s Cabinet picks. Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who notoriously professed surprise when Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, is “shocked” at the Gaetz nomination. Gaetz’s House Republican colleagues are “stunned and disgusted.”Reactions to Pete Hegseth’s nomination as secretary of defense are less vitriolic, if no less baffled. And yet, when the roundups start in January, many people are somehow going to be taken by surprise.

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The Three Pillars of the Bro-Economy
NEWS | 20 November 2024
Think of it as the bro-economy: a volatile, speculative, and extremely online casino, in which the house is already winning big. No surprise, Richard Reeves, the president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, told me, when I called to ask about the bro-economy. He also noted how many young men felt shut out of traditional wealth-building strategies, such as homeownership. Musk and Trump have given young men something to aspire to. But their ascendance makes the stricter regulation of the bro-economy unlikely—and, in the case of crypto, makes deregulation a sure thing.

This Just In:
Falling in Love With Reading Will Change Your Life
NEWS | 20 November 2024
View MoreI’m an English teacher at a private college-preparatory school, and much of “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books” sounded familiar. If we want students to read books, we have to be willing to prioritize the time for them to do so. If faculty members were polled—something that has never happened to me in my 20-year career—I’m sure we would rank interest and experience in reading books quite highly. Ten years ago, however, my district administration told me that I could no longer use class time for independent student reading. “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books” reflects a lot of what I’ve seen recently.

Today:
Was Agriculture the Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race?
NEWS | 20 November 2024
One counterintuitive strain of thought has treated this decision as “the worst mistake in the history of the human race,” as the popular author Jared Diamond once put it. It’s a policy show that questions what we really know about popular narratives. And so this question of why we make this switch as a species is really, really interesting. And so there is this other article by Jared Diamond, and he called agriculture “the worst mistake in the history of the human race.” What he thought was it was runaway population growth. But what you’re really worried about is, What am I going to eat in the worst possible case that could happen to me within the next 30 years?

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Gift Guide 2024
NEWS | 20 November 2024
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World:
The Senate Exists for a Reason
NEWS | 20 November 2024
Some of Trump’s nominations, such as Senator Marco Rubio to lead the State Department, are completely ordinary. The Senate must turn back these nominations, and do so en bloc. The Gaetz and Kennedy nominations are apparently already in trouble, and more than enough has been written about them. The Senate must do everything in its constitutional power to stop this. Trump won the election, but no president has an absolute right to his Cabinet nominations: The Constitution requires the Senate to consent to those nominations.

Current Events:
Drought Is an Immigration Issue
NEWS | 20 November 2024
This spring, at the start of the corn-growing season, 76 percent of Mexico was in drought, and the country was sweltering under a deadly heat dome. Donald Trump and his incoming administration have said that limiting immigration into the United States is a priority; the president-elect intends to both close the southern border and deploy the military in order to carry out mass deportations. Drought and other climate disasters will help propel more people north; U.S. immigration policies will attempt to block them, but migrants won’t stop coming. Like many places in the world, Mexico is becoming a harder place to live because of both drought and extreme rainfall, which leads to flooding. And more who have left may stay for longer in the United States.

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SPONSORED | 20 November 2024
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